PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — AQA GCSE Economics Whole Specification in Detail & answers

PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — AQA GCSE Economics (8136) — Whole Specification in Detail — Includes Answers
Give your class a rigorous thinking workout while ensuring complete specification coverage. This printable booklet turns every part of the spec into clear, student-friendly tasks with built-in Grade 9 extensions. You also get a full answer set to support self-marking, quick feedback, and targeted intervention. Developed by an experienced UK teacher with the support of AI-assisted planning tools to ensure consistency, clarity and full-spec coverage. Save hours of planning: fully mapped to the whole specification, print-and-go, with answers included.
What’s inside
Whole-spec coverage: all topics, sub-topics, must-know content, misconceptions and key vocabulary mapped across the entire specification in detail.

PIXL strategies: Odd One Out • Always / Sometimes / Never True • Why? Why? Why? (5-deep) • Spot the Mistake • Diamond 9 / Ranking • Link It Up / Connections • Convince Me • What If? • Mini Retrieval (plus optional extras: If This Is the Answer…, Reduce It 30–3–2–1, Causation vs Correlation, Assumption Hunt).

Answers included: model points, sample justifications and marking guidance to make self-assessment easy.

Grade 9 stretch: every section has an Extension Task for analysis, evaluation and comparison.

Student-friendly layout: concise prompts, minimal prep, black-and-white printer-friendly.

Microeconomics
Foundations: Economic activity, the factors of production, and the concepts of scarcity and choice.

Markets: Demand and supply, market equilibrium, and price elasticity.

Firms: Production, productivity, costs, and revenue. It also covers economies of scale and different market structures, including competitive and non-competitive markets.

Market Failure: Misallocation of resources and externalities.

Macroeconomics
Indicators: The economic objectives of a government (economic growth, employment, inflation, and balance of payments).

Policy: The role of fiscal, monetary, and supply-side policies in managing the economy.

Globalisation: The reasons countries trade, exchange rates, and the benefits and drawbacks of globalisation.

Finance: The role of money and the importance of financial institutions.